Greg Marinovich

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Greg Marinovich (2011)

Greg Sebastian Marinovich (born December 8, 1962 in Springs ) is a South African photojournalist and filmmaker. He became known as a member of the Bang-Bang Club and its photos from townships , when there were sometimes civil war-like conditions there.

Life

Marinovich was born in South Africa to Croatian parents. To avoid military service , he fled to Botswana around 1985 . He became friends with SWAPO rebels. After his return he worked as a safari guide and thus approached nature photography . He moved to Johannesburg and worked there as a photojournalist for several newspapers, including the Financial Mail.

In 1990 he photographed the murder of an alleged Inkatha spy in Soweto by members of the African National Congress . He has received several awards for the picture in which the victim is on fire. He was then employed by the Associated Press and the Sunday Times .

Marinovich formed the informal Bang-Bang Club together with photographers of about the same age Kevin Carter , Ken Oosterbroek and João Silva . They often took photos in townships and documented the bloody unrest between supporters of the African National Congress and Inkatha in the final phase of apartheid . In 1994 he and Oosterbroek were shot at in Thokoza . Oosterbroek died, Marinovich was seriously injured. In the same year he was awarded the United Nations award of Recognition for Service to Humanity . Marinovich made numerous reports in war zones, including Chechnya , Somalia and the crumbling Yugoslavia . From 1996 to 1997 he was chief photographer for the Associated Press in Israel and Palestine . He then worked, among other things, as a freelance journalist for Der Spiegel . After his fourth gunshot wound, which he sustained in Afghanistan , Marinovich decided to stop serving as a war correspondent. Together with João Silva he wrote a book about the Bang-Bang Club. He made documentaries , for example for the South African Broadcasting Corporation .

Marinovich teaches visual journalism (such as "photojournalism") at Boston University . In 2016 he published an investigative report on the Marikana massacre in 2012. He is co-editor of the South African online newspaper Daily Maverick .

In addition to the publications mentioned, his photo reports have appeared in Time Magazine , Newsweek , the New York Times and Paris Match , among others .

Honors and reception

Works

motion pictures

  • The Bang-Bang Club. Canada / South Africa 2010

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Short biography at wunderhorn.de , accessed on March 26, 2016
  2. ↑ a b c d e f portrait at sahistory.org.za (English), accessed on March 26, 2016
  3. ↑ Silva and Marinovich about their experiences as war reporters at npr.org (English), accessed on March 26, 2016
  4. ↑ a b c Marinovich at Boston University ( Memento from March 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
personal data
SURNAME Marinovich, Greg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Marinovich, Greg Sebastian (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South African photojournalist and filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Springs